Why cant you merge two folders on a MAC?

If i wish to add files from a folder with lesser files I must copu them from inside both folders.  If I drag a smaller folder to a location with a same name folde with more data in it the smaller folder is the only folder left.  The data in the larger folder goes to the trash with only asking if I want to copy over.  I would like to keep the unique files in the larger folder.

In Mountain Lion (10.8) you can hold the Option key when you drag a folder to get additional options for merging data, including keeping the newest version of similarly-named items.
I don't recall whether this was an option in 10.6.

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